Your Customers Are Shopping Online, Your Store Should Convert Them
Whether you’re an established retailer moving online, a product brand ready to scale, or an entrepreneur launching your first store, the right Shopify build can transform how much you sell.
The way people shop has changed permanently. Whether it’s browsing on a phone during a commute, comparing products across tabs, or checking out in seconds with a saved card, online shopping is now the expected standard, not the exception. A store that’s slow, clunky or hard to trust loses the sale in the first few seconds.
For retailers and brands across Ireland, this represents a significant opportunity. A well-built Shopify store lets you sell around the clock without the overheads of a physical shop. It lets you reach customers anywhere, on any device, and it gives you the data on what’s selling, what’s not, and where buyers drop off, so you can keep improving.
We’ve been building online stores and eCommerce websites for Irish businesses for over 20 years. We understand the technology and the practical realities of selling online, from stock and shipping to payments and returns.
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Powerful Features That Turn Visitors Into Buyers
The Right Shopify Setup for Your Needs
Waterford’s Shopify Development Team
We’ve been building websites and online stores for businesses across Waterford, Kilkenny, Wexford and Tipperary for over 20 years. Our experience spans every sector. From retail and hospitality to professional services and manufacturing, we bring that breadth of knowledge to every Shopify project we take on.
We’re not a specialist agency that only understands one platform either. We’re a full-service digital agency that understands business, which means we build stores that sell in the real world, not just look good in a demo.
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Shopify Questions We Get Asked All the Time
It depends on the size and complexity of your store. A clean, well-built store with a customised theme and a modest product range sits at one end, while a large catalogue, bespoke theme development, migrations or custom integrations sit at the other. The best way to get an accurate figure is a quick conversation about what you’re selling and how you want it to work, and we’ll give you a fixed price before any work begins, so there are no surprises later.
Most stores take somewhere between a few weeks and a couple of months from kick-off to launch, depending on the size of your catalogue, how much custom design and development is involved, and how quickly content and product information come together. We’ll give you a clear timeline at the start of the project and keep you updated at every stage.
Yes. Migrations are something we do regularly, whether you’re coming from WooCommerce, Wix, Squarespace or another platform. We carefully move your products, customers, orders and content across, and we put the right redirects in place so you keep the search rankings you’ve worked hard to build. Done properly, a migration protects your SEO rather than harming it.
Shopify charges a monthly subscription fee, which varies depending on the plan you choose, and there are transaction or payment-processing fees on sales. Some stores also use paid apps for specific features. We’ll help you pick the plan that fits your business and make sure you’re not paying for apps or features you don’t actually need, so your running costs stay sensible.
It comes down to what you’re selling, how you want to manage the store, and where you want to be in a few years. Shopify is fully hosted, secure and reliable with very little to maintain, which makes it a great fit for most retailers and brands. WooCommerce offers more flexibility if you’re already deep in WordPress. We build on both, so we’ll give you honest advice on which is the better fit for your business rather than pushing you towards one.
Absolutely. Shopify is designed to be easy to manage day to day, and we’ll train your team on how to add products, update content, process orders and read your reports. You won’t need to call us every time you want to change a price or add a new product, though we’re always here if you’d rather we handled it.
Yes. A large share of online shopping now happens on phones, so every store we build is designed mobile-first and tested thoroughly across devices before launch. Your customers get a fast, smooth buying experience whether they’re on a phone, tablet or desktop.
Shopify supports a wide range of payment options suitable for Irish businesses, including major card payments, Shop Pay, Apple Pay and Google Pay, as well as gateways like Stripe and WorldPay. We’ll set up the payment methods that make the most sense for your customers and your margins, and make sure checkout is quick and trustworthy.
We build every store with GDPR-friendly data handling, secure payment processing and the right cookie and privacy setup, so you can sell with confidence and treat your customers’ data responsibly. We’ll make sure the essentials are in place, though we always recommend getting your own legal advice on your specific policies.
Right here. We’re a Waterford-based digital agency and we’ve been building websites and online stores for businesses across Waterford, Kilkenny, Wexford, Tipperary and the rest of Ireland for over 20 years. If you’d like to talk through a Shopify project, get in touch for a free, no-obligation consultation.